Motorists must protest against people who drive too fast and reject Government plans to legalise speeding, a pensioner has claimed.

Alan Paul, a 71-year-old former stockbroker who lives in Vineyard Hill Road, Wimbledon Village, has begun his own protest against current proposals to increase the speed limit from 70mph to 80mph in 2013.

Mr Paul said he was fed up with people flouting the law by driving as fast as 100mph during his travels on the M40 and the M3 and said it was time “a little guy stood up for people who obey the rules”.

He said: “My proposal is that we form a club (with no membership or fees) by fixing to the back of our cars a white sticker with a red border and the lettering 70mph.

“I don’t accept the Government’s argument about the economic benefits of driving faster. At higher speeds you are less able to take action when a bad driver makes a mistake.”

Mr Paul made the bumper sticker from an oval-shaped GB sticker he bought in a motor accessories shop and painted over it with acrylic paint.

The previous Transport Secretary until last month, Philip Hammond MP, said the change would make “huge time savings” worth hundreds of millions of pounds a year.

He also said the current 70mph speed limit, which was set in 1965, had lost legitimacy.

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